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CN210945349U
CN210945349U CN201921501433.XU CN201921501433U CN210945349U CN 210945349 U CN210945349 U CN 210945349U CN 201921501433 U CN201921501433 U CN 201921501433U CN 210945349 U CN210945349 U CN 210945349U
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The utility model discloses a glass tempering furnace, glass tempering furnace includes: the first furnace body is used for carrying out preheating treatment and slow cooling treatment on the glass cover plate; the picking mechanism is used for picking and placing a toughening cage for loading a glass cover plate and is arranged on the first furnace body; the second furnace body and the third furnace body are used for respectively carrying out toughening treatment on the glass cover plate; and the carrying mechanism is used for carrying the first furnace body to the second furnace body and the third furnace body respectively. Utilize the utility model provides a glass tempering furnace can reduce the idle time of furnace body, the utilization ratio of lifting means resource.

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Glass tempering furnace
Technical Field
The utility model relates to a glass apron processing technology especially relates to a glass tempering furnace.
Background
In the field of glass cover plate manufacturing industry, a chemical toughening furnace is a common production device, and the main procedures of the chemical toughening furnace comprise preheating, toughening and slow cooling.
When the existing toughening furnace is used for production, the preheating furnace, the toughening furnace and the slow cooling furnace are mostly matched to finish the toughening process of the glass cover plate, however, the situation that the preheating furnace and the slow cooling furnace are too long in idle time often exists, the occupied space is large, and the utilization rate of equipment resources is low.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The utility model provides a glass tempering furnace to the problem that current glass tempering furnace occupation space is big and the furnace body has idle time overlength.
The utility model discloses technical scheme as to above-mentioned technical problem and propose as follows:
the utility model provides a glass tempering furnace, a serial communication port, include:
the first furnace body is used for carrying out preheating treatment and slow cooling treatment on the glass cover plate;
the picking mechanism is used for picking and placing a toughening cage for loading a glass cover plate and is arranged on the first furnace body;
the second furnace body and the third furnace body are used for respectively carrying out toughening treatment on the glass cover plate;
and the carrying mechanism is used for carrying the first furnace body to the second furnace body and the third furnace body respectively.
Preferably, the first furnace body comprises a first accommodating cavity for accommodating a toughening cage and a first opening and closing door structure of the first accommodating cavity;
the picking mechanism comprises a fixed part arranged on the first furnace body and a picker connected with the fixed part;
the carrying mechanism comprises a guide rail and a carrier arranged on the guide rail, and the first furnace body is arranged on the carrier; the initial carrying position of the carrier is positioned between the second furnace body and the third furnace body;
the second furnace body holds the chamber and reaches including the second that supplies the tempering cage to put into the second opening and closing door structure in chamber is held to the second, the third furnace body holds the chamber and reaches including the third that supplies the tempering cage to put into the third opening and closing door structure in chamber is held to the third.
Preferably, the initial carrying position is located at a middle position between the second furnace and the third furnace.
Preferably, the guide rail includes a first slide rail and a second slide rail that are arranged in parallel, the carrier includes a first carrying portion arranged on the first slide rail and a second carrying portion arranged on the second slide rail, and the first carrying portion and the second carrying portion are fixedly connected with the outer wall of the first furnace body.
Preferably, a material placing table is arranged below the initial carrying position.
Preferably, a wall body of the first accommodating cavity is provided with a circulation air passage which is used for being communicated with an air conveying passage of an air conveying device, and the circulation air passage is used for inputting heat-conducting gas with a first preset temperature into the first accommodating cavity during preheating treatment and inputting heat-conducting gas with a second preset temperature into the first accommodating cavity during slow cooling treatment.
The embodiment of the utility model provides a beneficial effect that technical scheme brought is:
compared with the traditional problem that two furnace bodies are adopted to bring occupied space and more idle time in the toughening treatment process, under the condition that the production requirement is still met, the preheating treatment and slow cooling treatment of the glass cover plate loaded in the toughening cage are realized by the aid of the first furnace body, the occupied space of equipment is reduced, the idle time of the furnace body is reduced by controlling the treatment cooperation among the first furnace body, the second furnace body and the third furnace body, and the utilization rate of equipment resources is improved.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments will be briefly described below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious for those skilled in the art to obtain other drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a glass tempering furnace according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is another schematic perspective view of a glass tempering furnace according to an embodiment of the present invention.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the present invention clearer, embodiments of the present invention will be described in further detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings.
Referring to fig. 1 and 2, fig. 1 is a schematic perspective view of a glass tempering furnace according to an embodiment of the present invention; fig. 2 is another schematic perspective view of a glass tempering furnace according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 1, the glass tempering furnace 1 provided by the present invention may include a frame 11, wherein the frame 11 is provided with a first furnace body 12, a picking mechanism 13, a second furnace body 14, a third furnace body 15, a carrying mechanism 16 and a corresponding control system (not shown), wherein the first furnace body 12 is used for completing a glass cover plate preheating step and a slow cooling step in a glass tempering process; the picking mechanism 13 is used for picking and placing a tempering cage for loading a glass cover plate; the second furnace body 14 and the third furnace body 15 are both used for toughening the glass cover plate; the carrying mechanism 16 is used for carrying the first furnace body 12, so as to respectively convey the tempering cages in the first furnace body 12 to the second furnace body 14 and the third furnace body 15.
It will be appreciated that in an actual production process, thirty to forty tempering racks may be loaded in a tempering cage, and one hundred glass cover plates may be loaded on each tempering rack. Here, the glass cover may be embodied as a mobile phone glass cover.
The utility model provides a control system is used for right first furnace body 12, pick up mechanism 13, second furnace body 14, third furnace body 15, carrying mechanism 16 carry out corresponding control, and concrete control can include:
the first action is as follows: after the temperature in the first furnace body 12 reaches a first preset temperature, the first group of tempering cages are placed into the first furnace body for preheating by using the pickup mechanism 13. Here, the first preset temperature may be 90 degrees celsius.
And the second action: after the furnace temperature of the first furnace body 12 reaches a second preset temperature and the furnace temperature of the second furnace body 12 reaches a third preset temperature, the first furnace body 12 is carried to the position of the second furnace body 14 by using the carrying mechanism 16, and the first group of tempering cages in the first furnace body 12 are placed into the second furnace body 14 by using the picking mechanism 13 so as to perform tempering treatment on the glass cover plates in the first group of tempering cages by using the second furnace body 14. Here, the second preset temperature may be 370 degrees celsius, and the third preset temperature may be 420 degrees celsius.
And action three: after the temperature in the furnace of the first furnace body 12 is reduced to the first preset temperature, the second group of tempering cages loaded with the glass cover plates are placed into the first furnace body 12 by the picking mechanism 13 for preheating treatment.
And fourthly, action: after the furnace temperature of the first furnace body 12 reaches the second preset temperature and the furnace temperature of the third furnace body 15 reaches the third preset temperature, the first furnace body 12 is carried to the position of the third furnace body 15 by the carrying mechanism 16, and the picking mechanism 13 places the second group of tempering cages in the first furnace body 12 into the third furnace body 15.
And fifthly: after the second furnace body 15 carries out toughening treatment on the glass cover plates in the first group of toughening cages, the first furnace body 12 is carried to the position of the second furnace body 14 by using the carrying mechanism 16, and the first group of toughening cages in the second furnace body 14 are placed into the first furnace body 12 by using the picking mechanism 13 so as to carry out slow cooling treatment on the glass cover plates in the first group of toughening cages.
Action six: first furnace body 12 carries out slow cooling to the glass apron in the second group tempering cage, and is utilizing pick up mechanism 13 and place first group tempering cage in preset position department after, utilize carrying mechanism 16 will first furnace body 12 carries extremely third furnace body 15 position, and utilize pick up mechanism 13 will second group tempering cage in the third furnace body 15 is put into in first furnace body 12 carries out slow cooling with the glass apron in the second group tempering cage.
Through the utility model provides a glass tempering furnace and corresponding action are carried out, compare the tradition and adopt two furnace bodies to bring the more problem of idle time in occupation space and the tempering treatment technology respectively, the utility model discloses under the situation that satisfies normal production requirement, utilize first furnace body to realize reducing the space that equipment occupy to the preheating treatment and the slow cooling treatment of the glass apron of loading in the tempering cage, and through the idle time of the processing cooperation between first furnace body of control, second furnace body, the third furnace body in order to reduce the furnace body, the utilization ratio of lifting means resource.
In this embodiment, the control system is further configured to control:
and the seventh action: after the first group of tempering cages are placed at the preset position by the picking mechanism 13, and before the second group of tempering cages in the third furnace body 15 are placed in the first furnace body by the picking mechanism 13 to carry out slow cooling treatment on the glass cover plate, the third group of tempering cages are placed in the first furnace body by the picking mechanism to carry out preheating treatment;
after the furnace temperature of the first furnace body 12 reaches a second preset temperature and the furnace temperature of the second furnace body 14 reaches a third preset temperature, the carrying mechanism 16 is used for carrying the first furnace body 12 to the position of the second furnace body 14, the picking mechanism 13 is used for placing a third group of tempering cages in the first furnace body 12 into the second furnace body 14 so as to perform tempering treatment on the glass cover plates in the third group of tempering cages by using the second furnace body 14, therefore, the preheating treatment and slow cooling treatment of the first furnace body 12 are multiplexed, meanwhile, the time gap for performing tempering treatment on the glass cover plates in the second group of tempering cages by using the third furnace body 15 is used, the preheating treatment is performed on the third group of tempering cages by using the first furnace body 12, and the idle time of the first furnace body 12 is further reduced.
It should be understood that during the tempering treatment of the third group of tempering cages by the second furnace 14, the first furnace can be brought to the third furnace by the carrying mechanism, and the second group of tempering cages in the third furnace can be picked up by the picking mechanism to carry out the slow cooling treatment on the glass cover plates in the second group of tempering cages in the first furnace. Similarly, after slow cooling, the second group of tempering cages are placed at the preset position, and in the period of tempering the third group of tempering cages by the second furnace body 14, the fourth group of tempering cages can be preheated by the first furnace body 12 in the same way, and the process is suitable for the tempering process of the subsequent tempering cage group.
In this embodiment, the first furnace body 12 may specifically include a first accommodating cavity for accommodating the tempering cage and a first door opening and closing structure of the first accommodating cavity. The picking mechanism 13 may specifically include a fixed portion disposed on the first furnace body 12 and a picker connected to the fixed portion, where the picker is used to pick up the tempering cage or place the picked tempering cage at a specified position. The second furnace body 14 specifically may include a second accommodating cavity for accommodating the tempering cage and a second opening and closing door structure of the second accommodating cavity, and the third furnace body 15 includes a third accommodating cavity for accommodating the tempering cage and a third opening and closing door structure of the third accommodating cavity.
The carrying mechanism 16 includes a guide rail 161 and a carrier 162 disposed on the guide rail 161, the first furnace body 12 is disposed on the carrier 162, and an initial carrying position of the carrier 162 is located between the second furnace body 14 and the third furnace body 15. Here, the initial carrying position is located above the material placing table, and the initial carrying position and the material placing table may be further located at a middle position between the second furnace body 14 and the third furnace body 15, so that in an initial operation, the picking mechanism 13 picks up the tempering cage placed on the material placing table by using a picker and places it into the first receiving cavity of the first furnace body 12.
The preset position may be coincident with the material placing table, or may be a position below the guide rail outside the material placing table.
Here, the guide rail 161 includes a first slide rail and a second slide rail that are arranged in parallel, the carrier 16 includes a first carrying portion arranged on the first slide rail and a second carrying portion arranged on the second slide rail, and the first carrying portion and the second carrying portion are fixedly connected to an outer wall of the first furnace body 12, so that the first furnace body 12 can be driven to displace when the first carrying portion and the second carrying portion move on the corresponding slide rails.
It can be understood that, when the specific action is implemented, the control system can also control the opening and closing and toughening time and temperature of the corresponding opening and closing door structure, and the corresponding control can be an electric signal including position information sent by a position sensor signal according to the opening and closing of the corresponding opening and closing door structure, such as an electric signal sent by an optical position sensor or a limit switch; the corresponding toughening time can be an electric signal which is sent by the timing circuit and comprises time information, such as an electric signal sent by the timing unit; the corresponding temperature may be based on an electrical signal from a temperature sensor containing temperature information, such as an electrical signal from an electronic thermometer.
In the actual production process, the controller can simultaneously control the first furnace body 12, the second furnace body 14 and the third furnace body 15 to start heating, when the temperature in the furnace of the first furnace body 12 rises to 90 ℃, the first opening and closing door structure of the first furnace body 12 is opened, and the picking mechanism 13 lifts the mobile phone glass cover plate in the first group of tempering cages into the first furnace body 12. The first open-close door structure of the first furnace body 12 is closed to start the preheating treatment of the mobile phone glass cover plate in the first group of tempering cages.
The furnace temperature of the first furnace body 12 was raised to 370 ℃ after 0.5 hour, and the preheating treatment was completed after 1 hour. Meanwhile, if the temperature of the molten salt in the second furnace body 14 and the third furnace body 15 is 420 ℃, the carrying mechanism 16 is used to drive the first furnace body 12 to move towards the second furnace body 14, and the movement is stopped when the first furnace body moves to the position right above the second furnace body 14. The second opening and closing door structure of the second furnace body 14 is opened, so that the first group of tempering cages in the first furnace body 12 are placed in the second accommodating cavity of the second furnace body 14. And then, closing a second opening and closing door structure of the second furnace body 14, and toughening the mobile phone glass cover plate in the first group of toughening cages by the second furnace body 14.
Thereafter, the carrying mechanism 16 drives the first furnace body 12 to move back to the middle position (initial carrying position) to start cooling, and the furnace temperature of the first furnace body 12 is reduced to 90 ℃ after 1 hour. The first opening and closing door structure of the first furnace body 12 is opened, and the picking mechanism 13 lifts the second group of tempering cages (on which the mobile phone glass cover plate is also loaded) into the first accommodating cavity of the first furnace body 12. The first opening and closing door structure of the first furnace body 12 is closed to start the preheating treatment of the mobile phone glass cover plate in the second group of tempering cages.
The furnace temperature of the first furnace body 14 was raised to 370 ℃ after 0.5 hour, and the preheating treatment was completed after 1 hour. The carrying mechanism 16 drives the first furnace body 12 to move towards the third furnace body 15, and stops moving when moving right above the third furnace body 15, and the third opening and closing door structure of the third furnace body 15 is opened, so that the second toughening cage in the first furnace body 12 is placed in the third accommodating cavity of the third furnace body 15. And then, closing a third opening and closing door structure of the third furnace body 15, and toughening the mobile phone glass cover plate in the second group of toughening cages by the third furnace body 15. At this time, the mobile phone glass cover plate in the first group of tempering cages in the second furnace body 14 is tempered for 2.5 hours, as shown in a tempering parameter table of a conventional material product:
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as can be seen from the table: the toughening time is 4H, so that the mobile phone glass cover plate in the first group of toughening cages in the second furnace body 14 is toughened after 1.5 hours. After that, the carrying mechanism 16 drives the first furnace body 12 to move towards the second furnace body 14, and stops moving when moving right above the second furnace body 14, the second opening and closing door structure of the second furnace body 14 is opened, and the picking mechanism 13 hangs the tempering cage loaded with the mobile phone glass cover plate in the first group of tempering cages in the second furnace body 14 into the first furnace body 12, so as to perform slow cooling treatment on the mobile phone glass cover plate.
The carrying mechanism 16 drives the second furnace body 12 to move, and stops moving when moving to the initial carrying position, the first opening and closing door structure of the first furnace body 12 is closed, and the slow cooling treatment is completed after 1 hour. After the slow cooling treatment is completed, the first opening and closing door structure of the first furnace body 12 is opened, and the first group of tempering cages provided with the mobile phone glass cover plates after the slow cooling treatment are placed on the material placing table by using the pickup 13, so that the tempering process of the mobile phone glass cover plates in the first group of tempering cages is completed.
Then, the pickup mechanism 13 lifts the third group of tempering cages loaded with the mobile phone glass cover plates into the first furnace body 12 to perform tempering steps in the same way as the preheating treatment in the first furnace body 12, the tempering treatment in the second furnace body 14 and the slow cooling treatment in the first furnace body 12, and when the third group of tempering cages are placed into the second furnace body 14 to perform the tempering treatment on the mobile phone glass cover plates loaded on the second group of tempering cages, the mobile phone glass cover plates in the third furnace body 15 are tempered for 4 hours, and the tempering treatment is completed. Thereafter, the carrying mechanism 16 moves the first furnace body 12 in the direction of the third furnace body 15, and stops moving when moving right above the third furnace body 15. And a third opening and closing door structure of the third furnace body 15 is opened, and the picking mechanism 13 is used for hoisting a second group of tempering cages loaded with the mobile phone glass cover plate in the third furnace body 15 into the first furnace body 12 so as to carry out slow cooling treatment on the mobile phone glass cover plate and finish the slow cooling treatment after 1 hour. Then, the first opening and closing door structure of the first furnace body 12 is opened, and the second group of tempering cages which are slowly cooled and provided with the mobile phone glass cover plates are placed on the material placing table by the pickup device 13, so that the tempering process of the mobile phone glass cover plates in the second group of tempering cages is completed. Therefore, the first furnace body 12 is effectively reused according to the processing time to realize the preheating and slow cooling steps, the idle time of the equipment is reduced under the condition that the production requirement is still met, the utilization rate of the equipment resources is improved, and the occupied space of the equipment is reduced.
The utility model provides an among the glass tempering furnace set up the circulation air flue that is used for with the gas transmission passageway intercommunication of gas transmission device on the first wall body that holds the chamber of first furnace body, the circulation air flue is arranged in when the preheating treatment the first heat-conducting gas of predetermineeing temperature extremely in the first chamber that holds, when slow cooling is handled the second of input predetermine temperature heat-conducting gas extremely in the first chamber that holds.
The gas transmission device is used for providing heat-conducting gas with preset temperature, the effect of temperature action on the glass cover plate can be enhanced by inputting the heat-conducting gas with corresponding temperature, the processing time of preheating treatment and slow cooling treatment of the first furnace body is effectively shortened, and the production efficiency is improved.
The above description is only for the preferred embodiment of the present invention, and is not intended to limit the present invention, and any modifications, equivalent replacements, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principle of the present invention should be included within the protection scope of the present invention.

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1. A glass tempering furnace, characterized by comprising:
the first furnace body is used for carrying out preheating treatment and slow cooling treatment on the glass cover plate;
the picking mechanism is used for picking and placing a toughening cage for loading a glass cover plate and is arranged on the first furnace body;
the second furnace body and the third furnace body are used for respectively carrying out toughening treatment on the glass cover plate;
and the carrying mechanism is used for carrying the first furnace body to the second furnace body and the third furnace body respectively.
2. The glass tempering furnace of claim 1, wherein the first furnace body comprises a first accommodating cavity for accommodating a tempering cage and a first opening and closing door structure of the first accommodating cavity;
the picking mechanism comprises a fixed part arranged on the first furnace body and a picker connected with the fixed part;
the carrying mechanism comprises a guide rail and a carrier arranged on the guide rail, and the first furnace body is arranged on the carrier; the initial carrying position of the carrier is positioned between the second furnace body and the third furnace body;
the second furnace body holds the chamber and reaches including the second that supplies the tempering cage to put into the second opening and closing door structure in chamber is held to the second, the third furnace body holds the chamber and reaches including the third that supplies the tempering cage to put into the third opening and closing door structure in chamber is held to the third.
3. The glass tempering furnace according to claim 2, wherein said initial carrying position is located at a middle position between said second furnace body and said third furnace body.
4. The glass tempering furnace of claim 2, wherein said guide rails comprise a first slide rail and a second slide rail arranged in parallel, said carrier comprises a first carrier part arranged on said first slide rail and a second carrier part arranged on said second slide rail, and said first carrier part and said second carrier part are fixedly connected with an outer wall of said first furnace body.
5. The glass tempering furnace according to claim 2, wherein a material placing table is provided below said initial carrying position.
6. The glass tempering furnace according to any one of claims 2 to 5, wherein a flow passage for communicating with a gas transmission passage of a gas transmission device is provided in a wall body of said first accommodating chamber, and said flow passage is configured to input a heat conductive gas of a first preset temperature into said first accommodating chamber during a preheating process and to input a heat conductive gas of a second preset temperature into said first accommodating chamber during a slow cooling process.
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